Entries Tagged Leadership

More meetings. More tasks. More forms. More training. More programs. More hours. For decades, “more” has been an accepted business mantra — a...

For most utilities, having zero injuries is the ultimate safety goal, but this can be very hard to attain especially when you...

Robert “Bob” Leible began his path in the drinking water profession right out of college. After earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from...

Perhaps no one has gained more from experience than LaTia Jutan.Taking advice from her mom, developing management skills in her own cleaning...

For more than a year now, approximately 4 million American workers a month have left their jobs — that’s nearly 49 million...

Tiffany Poole holds a personal credo of paying it forward.“My favorite task is mentorship and empowerment of employees,” says Poole, supervising environmental...

Many treatment plant operators plan on rising through the ranks to become plant supervisors, plant managers or even utility administrators. But what does it take...

In the corporate word, it’s so much easier for managers to gloss over employees’ weaknesses or for employees to give some manager’s...

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the never-ending onslaught of tasks and to-dos that accumulate with mind-numbing frequency every day, Steve Willis...

Utility leaders must be prepared for some employee turnover. Sooner or later, you’re bound to have an employee who leaves the organization,...

A flashy, bright-red Ferrari Portofino will attract a lot of attention in a parking lot. A shiny new Honda Accord? Probably not...

A study from consulting firm FMI Corporation and PlanGrid discovered that 52% of all construction industry rework is a result of poor data...

Many of you remember author Tom Wolfe’s book and the movie titled The Right Stuff.  The story chronicles the original Mercury Seven astronauts and...

Flomatic welcomes Ray Smith as new sales rep Flomatic Valves announced the hiring of Raymond “Ray” Smith II as its new inside technical salesperson....